The Foot-and-Mouth Disease (Export Restrictions) (Wales) Regulations 2007

Export and movement of live animals

4.—(1) No person may export any live animal of the bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine species or any other biungulate from the surveillance zone.

(2) By way of derogation from paragraph (1), the Welsh Ministers may authorise the export of those animals originating outside the surveillance zone if the animals travelled through that zone on main roads and railway lines pursuant to paragraph (4) and the requirements relating to export in paragraph (3) are complied with.

(3) No person may export any biungulate animal from outside the surveillance zone to another member State unless at least three days before export the Welsh Ministers have notified the destination member State; and—

(a)in the case of bovine, porcine, ovine and caprine animals, the health certificate accompanying the animals bears the following words—

  • Animals conforming to Commission Decision 2007/554/EC of 9 August 2007 concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom; or

(b)in the case of any other biungulates, the health certificate accompanying the animals bears the following words—

  • Live biungulates conforming to Commission Decision 2007/554/EC of 9 August 2007 concerning certain protection measures against foot-and-mouth disease in the United Kingdom.

(4) No person may move any biungulate through the surveillance zone except on main roads or railway lines